Everlasting Father

Dec 20, 2024
6 min read

Happy Christmas!

We want to send our Christmas greetings and our love to you at this special time of the year. We, along with you, are praising God as we celebrate our Saviour's birth.

We pray that you and your family will have a blessed and peaceful Christmas.

Harry & Alice

Charles Spurgeon writes, "How complex is the person of our Lord Jesus Christ! Almost in the same breath the prophet calls him a 'child,' then a 'counsellor,' a 'son,' and 'the everlasting Father'…He who is in the Divine Trinity always called the Son, should nevertheless be correctly called 'the Everlasting Father.'"

Jesus said, “I and the Father are one,” and also said that if you had"seen him you had seen the Father." He came to reveal the Father to the world.

In Hebrew the name is literally “Father of Eternity.” He is before, above, and beyond time. He is the possessor of eternity.

What a thought for all of us who are seeking a way through this Christmastime.

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together" (Col 1:15).

It was customary for those who spoke and wrote the Hebrew language to call a person who possessed 'something', the 'father' of it. Isaiah was seeing the Messiah as one that actually possesses eternity, and is therefore the ‘Father’ of it. This Son who has been given to us is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; He is the First and the Last. There is no time that He didn’t exist, and there is no time He will not exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8dgI4-bVPU

Jesus is the Father of Eternity - Past

There was never a time when the Son of God began to be. He always was (John 1:1:"in the beginning was the Word"). All His thoughts and plans are eternal. He does not come up with new thoughts or ideas.

How long has He been thinking of you? How long has He been planning to save you? How long has He known that you would exist? “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world” (Eph 1). Christmas was part of God’s eternal plan of salvation for you and me.

M Henry said, “Our times (all events that concern us, and the timing of them) are at God's disposal. They are not in our own hands, for the way of man is not in himself; nor are they in our friend's hands, thank God for that; nor are they in our enemy's hands, but in God's. They could not be in better hands.”

Amazing to think that Jesus is described as both a Son and a Father. But, we must be clear that the Son is not the Father in relation to the Trinity, but is a Father in relation to us. He is a Father to you today, and you can rest assured that he will be a Father to you tomorrow and every day of your life and on into eternity. He is the same forever, hallelujah!

Charles Spurgeon says, “He is 'an everlasting Father' to all those to whom he is a Father at all. If you have entered into this relationship so as to be in union with Christ … you are his child, and you shall for ever be.”

Today, we have a Father that provides. Revelation 21:6-7 says,“To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”

This means that everything in our past is completely, fully, totally under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and if you trust in Jesus Christ, if you believe in Him and follow Him, then you don’t have to allow your past to paralyse your present.

You may regret the roads not taken, or the wrong roads/choices made!

Jesus can redeem your past so that it no longer paralyses your present—because He’s the Father of Eternity.

Jesus is the Father of Eternity - Today

The prophet Isaiah says to the children of Israel there’s something going to happen that is part of God’s story and therefore belongs to your story as well. Please read Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 11:1-5;

Jesus is our Everlasting Father in the sense that He is the one who brings us to spiritual life today. In John 14:6, Jesus told us that"no one comes to the Father, except through Him". It is because of Jesus that we can know a new and life-giving relationship with the Father now! This is His character.

He’s a good father, in his love and care, in His goodness and compassion.

How many are looking for meaning and truth today, just some hope over this Christmastime?

Friends, the wonderful truth about the Father of Eternity is He never ceases to be Father, and that He can't wait to have us back.

Today you may be wondering if you’ve moved so far away that you’re now outside of His arms of grace. There is no place that you or I could ever travel that would extend beyond our Father's compassionate reach. Just hear Him say to you, "Come home." Be willing today to start (restart) the journey, allow yourself to get back on the road that leads to him.

(Note the story in Luke 15.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWFzMvCfLE

Christ is the Father of Eternity - Future!

A song has come to mind: ‘Because he lives, I can face tomorrow!’

We are made for eternity. Remember Ecclesiastes 3:11,“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without which men will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end” (NASV).

We must know that there’s always something more that we are made for.

We were made for eternity and cannot be truly satisfied until we’re living for eternity.

He is a never-leave-you Father, one who’s there forever!

We need to surrender to the Father of Eternity and acknowledge that He is in control and we are loved with an everlasting love.

Isaiah is saying to the children of Israel, no matter the past, because of His divine everlasting love the past can be redeemed. Check out Is 54; Is 63:9; and Jer31:3

You may have messed up but He can help you make today different; He can make Christmas different and the future different!

Remember His words in Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Let’s go back to Luke 15 for a moment. The story says that the prodigal son "came to his senses." Do you know, the moment he realised he had a future was when he changed his thought from "give me" to "forgive me."

Then Luke 15:20 says, "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him...” He can't wait to have us back. There was and is always a waiting Father, and how wonderful to know there’s still a future waiting for His child. Come home to the Father.

Friends, the truth about the ‘Father of eternity’ is that He can't wait to have us back. No matter how far you strayed away, no matter what your past was like, the Father of Eternity sees you and wants you back.

All you have to do is be willing to stay on the road that leads to Him.

Take a moment to reflect on the following: The gift this Christmas is that you are saved by grace alone through faith in Christ alone.

Then, as Tim Keller says, “you can get an identity that is humbled out of your pride but affirmed and loved out of your insecurity, and one that offers you forgiveness and restoration when you fail.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEndgvJe2s